Debbie Murray and Shea Fragoso Archives

Welcome to our Twelfth day of

FABULOUS

Holiday Giveaways!

Today we are featuring:

Debbie Murray and Shea Fragoso~A Gilded Life

Charlotte Lyons

Fancy Pants Designs

Provo Craft~Cricut

Debbie Murray and Shea Fragoso~

A Gilded Life

The mother-daughter design team of Debbie Murray and Shea Fragoso has been collaborating in creative ways for as long as both can remember. When Shea was growing up, Debbie taught stained glass classes in the community college system and owned a custom design business and fine art painting studio. When Shea finished school, they owned gift shops together in Southern California. Shea became a highly sought-after jewelry designer; her creations appeared in dozens of fashion magazines and graced the red carpet several times. Both women designed products for the gift industry and sold pieces to collectors around the world. In 2009, Debbie and Shea completed a major remodeling of a gothic church in Dallas, Texas. Here, they indulged in their love of crowns and European design and were constantly inspired by the architecture and the light.

Please visit: www.AGildedLife.com

Debbie and Shea are giving away a January Stash Society kit!

To read all about the wonderful Stash Society, click HERE

(this is a previous month’s example, but it will be just as FABULOUS!)

Charlotte Lyons

Charlotte Lyons designs and makes things in a variety of styles and media. Still inspired by the humble simplicity of traditional art and craft and the inventive use of repurposed materials, Charlotte aims to mix an unfussy playfulness with the vintage charm of handmade keepsakes.

Over the years, her work has been featured in her books (Mothers and Daughters at Home, Between Friends), those with Mary Engelbreit and Barbara Martin and also in magazines such as Country Living, Victoria, Woman’s Day, Better Homes and Gardens, Mollie Makes and Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion. Currently, she designs for her Etsy shop, licensing and teaches workshops nationally. Her new fabric collection, Walnut Hill Farm, recently debuted with Blend Fabrics at International Quilt Market.

Born and educated in St. Louis, Charlotte raised three artistic daughters in a bright pink house in Chicago. Now she and her husband live in the lower Hudson River Valley of New York, happy to have their girls (and their guys) nearby.

Please visit:

http://blendfabrics.com/gallery/walnut-hill-farm

http://www.etsy.com/shop/charlottelyons/

http://www.housewrenstudio.typepad.com/

http://www.charlottelyons.com/

Charlotte is giving away a dumpling zipbag custom made from her new fabric line,

“Walnut Hill Farm” for Blend.

Fancy Pants Designs

With their combined knowledge, Jodi {the creative person} and Jared {the business person} took a chance on a dream and founded their own unique company.

Fancy Pants Designs premiered their first collections to the craft and hobby industry in the Winter of 2005. What started as a home-based business quickly flourished into an exciting opportunity of bringing creative ideas to life in many different mediums. We are proud to offer high quality designs for a variety of industries through the production and licensing of original artwork. With a group of creative directors, talented designers and experienced staff, Fancy Pants Designs continues to provide the latest and greatest designs to crafters worldwide.

Fancy Pants Designs is giving away an assortment of Scrapbook supplies!

Provo Craft~Cricut

Provo Craft is a creative crafting products company that enables people to achieve their creative best. For 40 years, Provo Craft has invented new products that bring crafting tools to the masses, including the Cricut® personal electronic cutter, the Cricut Craft Room, the Gypsy® for Cricut®, the Cricut Cake® personal electronic cutter, the Yudu® personal screen-printing system, and the Cuttlebug® die cutter and embosser. These innovative tools help bring consumers’ creative ideas to life in a personalized, beautiful way at home, in schools, and in the workplace. Provo Craft products have won dozens of industry awards and are available through leading mass retail, craft, home décor, office, and education outlets nationwide.

Visit www.provocraft.com or call (800) 937-7686.

Provo Craft is giving away a Cricut Expression!

Make your crafts impressively expressive.

Whether you’re designing a scrapbook of your family vacation or making 200 wedding invitations for your best friend, the Cricut Expression® easily ensures your creative possibilities are truly endless.

Larger than the Cricut® Create or the Cricut® Personal Electronic Cutter, the Cricut Expression® precisely cuts letters, shapes, and motifs in impressive sizes using the 12″ x 24″ mat or the 12″ x 12″ mat. You can also create bigger die cuts for classroom decor, scrapbook layouts, signage, and so much more.

Buy your Cricut Expression® today and start exploring the depths of your creativity.

Includes the Plantin SchoolBook™ font cartridge, the Accent Essentials™ shape cartridge (not included with all offers), and 1 12 x 12 cutting mat.

Today we’re proud to be participating in Sew Mama Sew’s FABULOUS

You’ll want to visit

http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/2011/11/giveaway-day-december-12/

And visit all of the great sites … REALLY!

It may take some time, but they’re all GREAT!

GOOD LUCK!

All you need to do to enter to win all FOUR of these prizes is comment below with your answer to this question …

What is your wish for the coming year?

Thanks so much to our FOUR FABULOUS artists!

* Remember, all 12 of the contest posts will be open until Friday, December 16th at Noon (MST), so you have until then to leave a comment. Also, if you didn’t get a chance to leave a link to your own holiday giveaway or idea post, please link up to our link party HERE …

We’d all love to visit YOUR giveaways and see YOUR holiday ideas! Thanks!

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Being a mother/daughter design team definitely has it’s advantages. Take for instance the seed of an idea that came last fall. Sitting in our studio pondering the future, a chance thought began to develop into an exciting possibility. With the bond that we share (some might even say the same mind!!), when one spoke the other knew EXACTLY what was being proposed and how to proceed to the next step.

Thus, the Gilded Girls Stash Society was born.

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An idea to share all of the yummy goodness that we use in our own studio with women all around the world seemed like a dream come true. The initial concept was hammered out into a final plan that would send vintage and vintage-inspired textiles, trims, paper, embellishments, millinery and jewelry findings to their new homes both here and abroad.

We were absolutely amazed when we hit our initial target number of members. A simple blog post announcing our new endeavor was uploaded to our blog, with an opportunity to “fly blind” with us, before we even posted pictures of the actual “stash”. Imagine our amazement when we not only sold each and every spot we had available, but we began a waiting list from month one.

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Hunting and gathering each month’s product for what we call our “box of beautiful” is a thrill that will never get old. Digging through a millinery store’s inventory from 1940 and finding the blush pink velvet posies that complement a linen fabric, is a rush of joy that only a crafter’s soul could understand. Discovering the gold tipped angel wings found behind a box of funky glass beads that make you audibly squeal with delight will forever thrill.

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All the dust from the boxes yanked down from the top shelf, all the miles racked up on the car for the good of a dig, all the Starbuck’s Venti black iced tea that are required to keep you going on a hot summer’s day, are nothing compared to the emails and comments of women who “get us”. When they email to let us us know that they just received their boxes and jumped up and down in their living room while covered in glitter and tulle… well, that is priceless.

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The Gilded Girls Stash Society was an epiphany. It was something that we were meant to do, for us and for the “Gilded Girls”. We are honored to hold this task we have been trusted with by so many.

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Each month it is a joy to curate these treasures into a cohesive “story”. We take inspiration from birthstones, flowers-of-the-month, holidays, and of course the Seasons themselves. We try to stay very true to our vintage roots while introducing variety and the element of surprise.

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Membership in the Gilded Girls Stash Society also includes access to a private blog where tutorials are posted several times each month using the items from the kit. This is a very popular component of the Society, and we always look forward to seeing photos of the work that members share through a Flickr group and Facebook page.

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Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? We treasure everything about this amazing creative journey we are on, and all of the wonderful people and places we are getting to know!

We are also so very happy (and honored) to be teaching again at The Creative Connection. Last year was a magical experience for us, and we will truly never be the same. And this year promises to be even better. We hope you will join all of us in St. Paul next month, and make some magic for yourself! Please visit us at http://whathappensnext.typepad.com/

{Romancing the Wristlet}

{Count your Blessings Necklace}

Aren’t they wonderful? I was so fortunate to take a class with these lovely ladies last year … I still treasure the necklace I made. You can’t miss taking a class from them, but be quick! They’re almost sold out! And guess what? They are offering one lucky commenter a Stash Society box!

Just comment below and let us know what you’d make with this lovely stash and your entered!

GOOD LUCK!

Additional entries:
*Follow WWC and TCC on Twitter
@WHEREWOMENCREAT @TCCEVENT (1 Entry)
*Tweet about this contest (1 entry)
*Blog about this contest and mention THE CREATIVE CONNECTION (1 Entry)
*Have a WWC button or link on your blog (1 Entry)
*Post a Comment on THE CREATIVE CONNECTION BLOG (1 Entry)
Remember to post separately for each additional entry and please only post the amount of entries allowed. Also, make sure we have a way to contact you. This contest ends on Thursday, August 18th at Midnight (MST), so make sure to get your comments in by then.

One more thing … Facebook rules are ever changing, so we never involve them in any contest we have. However, we would appreciate a “Like” on our THE CREATIVE CONNECTION EVENT Facebook page.
Creative Karma will be bestowed on you!